On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Graham Allan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 02:27:07PM -0500, Jamie Duncan wrote:
>> pro - powerful and well-supported
>> con - you have to learn a new syntax
>>
>> alternative - bcfg2
>
> Also cfengine, though that seems to be getting less fashionable... We
> still use it, no compelling reasons to change so far!

we take our decisions based on functionality, not fashion.

Cfengine is just fine. Good performance, little dependencies, good
security record (not unimportant for your infrastructure management
tool and oh what a start of the year for ruby it was), and it has in
place editing instead of requiring you to use yet another tool
(augeas).

But puppet/chef are good products too, just not good enough to justify
a downgrade from the better one ;-)

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natxo